Detroit News readers likely think they know the story of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, the ore carrier that sank in Lake Superior 50 years ago this month and was immortalized by Gordon Lightfoot's hit ...

Its waters are frequently noted as being “notoriously cold,” with surface temperatures rarely exceeding 55 degrees. Having ...

I read Robin Washington’s column in Monday’s Star Tribune (“50 years later, story endures despite ballad’s myths,” Strib Voices) and felt compelled to respond to his column. Growing up in Minnesota ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Associated Press reporter Harry Atkins was far from Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, “when the gales of November came early.” But his news coverage the following day of the ...

Fifty years after its sinking on Lake Superior, the iron-ore ship remains a fascination among guys. There’s good reason for that.

Atkins' initial news story on the shipwreck, the last major shipwreck on the Great Lakes, is credited with helping to inspire Gordan Lightfoot's famous song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” The ...

Less than a year after the American cargo carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the Great Lakes in November 1975, the late Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot released a folk-rock ballad titled ...

Without Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald might have faded into history alongside thousands of other Great Lakes wrecks. He was inspired to write the song after reading the first ...

It happened every year on November 10: if you were listening to the radio anywhere in Michigan, you’d inevitably hear the wail of a guitar that seemed to speak in a human voice, a mournful invitation.

“The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy.” 50 years ago today marks the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which is infamous for its mystery and notoriety ...